How to Move Easily move photos without losing any changes

Hi,
I've built up a large number of photos in Lightroom which include cropping information, WB and color adjustments, ratings, etc. I currently have the photos stored in individual folders underneath C:\Users\profile\Desktop\Photos, and would now like to relocate ALL photos to the default path for Vista "C:\Users\profile\Pictures."
How can I do this without losing any of my edits, ratings, etc.? Will I be able to move all of the folders at once, or will I need to handle them folder by folder?
Thank You for any help ca ncan give newbie!

Bradley,
Leaving the catalog on the laptop and keeping your originals on an external drive is definitely the way to setup LR. I would go even one further, and use a small USB drive for the catalog, and a different SET of drives for your originals.
The lrcat file in itself is relatively small, but the preview folder can be really huge, taking up a huge amount of space on your drive (many gigabytes).
By keeping your catalog on a removable drive, it makes it very easy to use the catalog on more than one system by just plugging in the drive, and maybe 'finding' the folders again if necessary.

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